This technique could predict asthma attacks up to years in advance - One in 12 Americans are living with asthma ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham and Karolinska Institutet have identified a new method to predict asthma exacerbations ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Study: The ratio of circulatory levels of sphingolipids to steroids predicts asthma exacerbations ...

Researchers identified a blood-based metabolite ratio that predicts asthma exacerbations up to five years in advance. The ...

Plasma ceramides and sphingomyelins with palmitic acid were linked to a 34% and 37% increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) per higher SD of log sphingolipid levels, respectively. After looking ...

Solving the Riddle of the Sphingolipids in Coronary Artery Disease Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have uncovered a way to unleash in blood vessels the protective effects of a type of fat-related ...

When it comes to cholesterol, we've come to accept a simple narrative. Our risk of heart disease is lower when we have more "good cholesterol," or high-density lipoproteins (HDL), and less "bad ...

What to use to make a good raft? This question has been debated since long before Robinson Crusoe, but if it’s lipid rafts we are talking about, you may want to shy away from using sphingolipids. A ...

Scientists have made a link between muscular dystrophy and a group of bioactive fats, the sphingolipids, which are involved in numerous cell functions and other diseases. In a new study, the group of ...

—According to the results of a new study from researchers in South Korea, plasma sphingolipids may help monitor disability and disease activity in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder ...